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LouisianaHB 1532025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

UNEMPLOYMENT COMP: Provides relative to work search requirements for unemployment benefits (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF RV See Note)

Sponsored By: Troy Jude Hebert (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Labor and Industrial Relations

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Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.

Stricter work rules for Louisiana unemployment benefits

Beginning December 31, 2025, Louisiana unemployment claimants must complete at least five work-search actions each week they claim benefits. They must also be able and available to work; the administrator decides which actions count. Following an approved reemployment plan satisfies active search only when the plan meets the five-action rule. Plans must be reasonable for similar unemployed workers, considering qualifications, travel distance, work history, and the job market. Without good cause, claimants can lose benefits for failing to apply for suitable work when directed, accept suitable work within the offer's deadline, or attend a scheduled interview. The same applies to ignoring directions to return to customary self-employment or join approved training. Disqualification lasts until claimants earn covered wages of at least 10 times their weekly benefit amount after the disqualifying week. Those wages can qualify under Louisiana, another state's, or federal unemployment law; claimants also must not have left their last work under disqualifying circumstances. Employers must report suspected work-search violations, and the administrator must provide an online or electronic reporting form to all employers. The administrator must tell employers at least annually why reporting matters.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Troy Jude Hebert

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 108 • No: 36

Senate vote • 6/2/2025

Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 8 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 28 • No: 8

House vote • 5/5/2025

Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 73, nays 24. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 73 • No: 24

House vote • 4/24/2025

Reported favorably

Yes: 7 • No: 4

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 151.

    6/8/2025House

  2. Effective date: 12/31/2025.

    6/8/2025House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    6/5/2025House

  4. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

    6/4/2025House

  5. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    6/4/2025Senate

  6. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    6/3/2025House

  7. Called from the Calendar.

    6/2/2025Senate

  8. Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 8 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    6/2/2025Senate

  9. Rules suspended.

    5/29/2025Senate

  10. Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.

    5/29/2025Senate

  11. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

    5/28/2025Senate

  12. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/27/2025Senate

  13. Rules suspended. Reported favorably.

    5/21/2025Senate

  14. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.

    5/7/2025Senate

  15. Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

    5/6/2025Senate

  16. Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 73, nays 24. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    5/5/2025House

  17. Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    4/28/2025House

  18. Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2025.

    4/28/2025House

  19. Reported favorably (7-4).

    4/24/2025House

  20. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.

    4/14/2025House

  21. Prefiled.

    3/31/2025House

  22. Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.

    3/31/2025House

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